On Fri, Nov 25 2016 at 15:38 CET, jsbien_at_mimuw.edu.pl writes:
> Hi!
>
> There are two comments to the character(s) in the U0180 chart:
>
> 1. Pan-Turkic Latin orthography
[...]
On Mon, Nov 28 2016 at 16:48 CET, kenwhistler_at_att.net writes:
> On 11/25/2016 10:20 PM, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>
> Now there is a follow-up question: why the character was included in
> Unicode 1.1.0?
Thank you very much for the detailed answer!
[...]
> Well, the proximate cause for that was the presence of z with stroke
> in the XCCS character set, which was the source for a lot of the early
> Unicode 1.0 repertoire. More precisely:
>
> XCCS (= Xerox Character Code Standard) 1990 contained:
>
> 0x23 0x48 Azerbaijani capital letter Z
> 0x23 0x68 Azerbaijani small letter Z
[...]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet
So "Pan-Turkic Latin orthograhy" in the comment shoud be understood as
The Uniform Turkic Alphabet
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Turkic_Alphabet#In_the_USSR)?
Best regards
Janusz
-- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) jsbien@uw.edu.pl, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/Received on Tue Nov 29 2016 - 05:58:23 CST
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